Sentence examples for cause against a from inspiring English sources
The progressives had done what they do best: failed to come together and make common cause against a known and clear enemy.
She plunged into Deng Xiaoping's new China, for the first time not feeling obliged to plead China's cause against a critical world.
More time is spent ripping flesh out of each other than it is trying to find a common cause against an apparently invisible and impregnable enemy.
It's a monumental cause against an altogether unrelenting disease.
And some Democrats see in Mr. Silver a speaker who effectively stands up for their causes against a Republican governor and a Republican Senate majority.
CAIRO — Rival Palestinian movements signed a historic reconciliation accord here on Wednesday vowing common cause against Israeli occupation, a product of shifting regional power relations and disillusionment with American peace efforts.
The keepers, as witnessed by USA Tim Howard's magnificent goaltending display in a losing cause against Belgium where he made a record 16 saves, may well be raising their game, as are the defenders in front of them.
After a year dominated by the Tea Party, the American left has found its voice, and a cause, united against a bill backed by the state's Republican governor, Scott Walker, to neuter public sector unions.
Ms. McCaw has also stirred broader tension in the community with threats of legal action against local merchants who hung signs sympathetic to the union cause, and against a journalist who wrote an unfavorable article about her in The American Journalism Review.
Finn Russell can be really sharp off set-piece strikes and uses them to put people into space but in phase rugby they lack the power to cause problems against a well set-up defence.
Thus, the very notion of 'change' is theory dependent, and therefore (Davidson holds) presupposes the notion of 'law', in the sense that something counts as a change, and thus as having a cause, only against a background of theoretical principles.
